Sparrow-trap.



G. F. ETZEL.

SPARROW TRAP.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3. 1914.

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SPARROW-TRAP.

Specification of. Letters latent.

Patented July 13, 1915.

Application filed. June 3, 191a "Seria1No.842,705.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. ETznL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Sparrow-Traps, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The general object of this invention is to refine the construction oftraps for birds, animals and the like in point of providing a trap whichmay be automatically reset to an operative position after an animal orbird has been captured thereby.

Another object of the invention is to provide a trap wherein bait may beexposed to sight but which will be inaccessible to the animal or bird atall times, thereby necessitating only the original baiting of the trap.And to these ends the invention consists of a wire receptacle having anopening in the top wall thereof, and a casing detachably secured to thereceptacle and arranged within the opening and an angular shaped trapdoor pivotally mounted in the casing and arranged to close the bottomthereof, the trap door being counter-weighted and provided forprecipitating the animals into the receptacle.

Other objects will appear and be better understood from that embodimentof my invention of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, 111 whichFigure 1 is an elevational view of a portion of my improved trap. Fig. 2is a top plan view of a portion of the trap, and Fig. 3 is a verticalsectional view of the inner casing.

As shown in the drawings the trap or, is formed of the receptacle 5, andthe casing 6 which is suspendedly arranged in the receptacle 5.

The receptacle 5 may be made of any size desired, and is formed of aframe-work 7 which may be of suitable wood or metal and which isprovided with suitable openwork sides 8. These sides 8 may be of wiremesh screening or the like, but for the purpose of illustrating thepresent embodiment of the invention, the same is shown in the form ofupright rods 9, which are arranged in convenient spaced relation witheach other in order to retain the captured animals or birds within theclosure.

As will be noted in Fig. 2, an opening 10 is provided in the upper sideof the receptacle 5, wherein is suspendedly arranged the casing 6. Thiscasing 6 is of smaller size in relation to the receptacle 5, and isprovided with side walls 11 while the upper and lower portions are open.These sides are provided with a suitable transparent window 13 such asglass or the like, and hooks 14 are provided at the upper portion of thecasing so as to suspend the samefas shown. For the purpose of attractingani.

mals or birds into the trap, suitable troughs 15 are provided at theexterior portions of the casing, so as to provide suitable baitreceptacles, thus it will be seen, that the animal will not be able toreach the bait which is placed within these troughs. A suitable trapdoor 16 is provided within the casing and is arranged to close thebottom thereof. This door is angular in shape and is pivotally arrangedwithinthe casing 6, as indicated at 17 and for the purpose of normallyretaining the door in the position shown in Fig. 3, a suitable weightedarm 18 is secured to the door, and operates to return the same to theposition shown, when the door is tilted. So as to allow the capturedbirds or animals to be seen from above and thereby act as a lure, thehorizontal portion of the door 16, is provided with a transparency 19;thus a bird seeing a bird in the trap will endeavor to enter also,whereupon by alighting upon the door the latter will be tilted as shownin dotted lines, and by virtue of the angular shape of the door the birdwill be unable to escape, but will be forced to enter the lower portionof the trap, after which the door will resume its normal position asstated.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the details ofconstruction and arrangements of parts without departing from the spiritof my invention and therefore I do not wish to be limited to suchfeatures except as may be required by the claim.

What I claim as new is door which normally closes the casing hav- 10 Atrap comprising a receptacle having an ing a transparency. opening inits top, a casing detachably se- In testimony whereof I afiix mysignature cured in the receptacle and arranged Within in presence of twoWitnesses. 5 the opening thereof, said casing having transparent sideWalls, and an angular GEORGE ETZEL' shaped counterweighted trap doorpivot- Witnesses:

ally mounted in the casing and arranged to JOHN A. DONEGAN,

close the bottom thereof, that part of the GEO. A. BYRNE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

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